Article Archive - 7/3/2008

Dear friends,

I am delighted to announce the release of my new book, “The List – The Art of Constructive Manifestation.” For those who like to cut to the bottom line,
ordering details appear at the end of this message. Hopefully everyone else is
willing to beat about the bush with me for a few moments.

Those of you familiar with the healing art of Body Electronics will be well
aware of The List, a tool for restoring order in our lives and for many of us
our constant companion as we extract ourselves out of years of resistances and
reactive patterns. As we release those resistances we become aware of a
multitude of neglected items in our environment, social settings, relationships,
family, and in our own mind. In many cases, these are things we have been
unwilling to deal with at some stage in our life and which may have been
forgotten (suppressed) or simply appeared to be too hard to deal with at the
time. Consequently, when we take a hard honest look at our past and our present
and begin to look into what our path into the future may hold we see areas of
uncertainty, confusion, guilt, regret, mistakes, hopes, aspirations and lessons
we dearly would like to finally learn.

After a lifetime, often, of limited or unpredictable success we may wonder how
we can do something different to produce a different and more constructive,
desirable outcome. The List is such a method.

The List was revealed to Dr Sir John Whitman Ray, founder of Body Electronics,
in answer to prayer in 1963. Since that time Dr Ray taught it to a great many
people, privately and publicly. He devoted a chapter to The List in his landmark
book, The Laws of Perfection (Book 1 of the Logic in Sequence series), and
refers to it frequently throughout his written works. Here is what he says about
it on page 171 of Book 1:

“The List was shown to me to be the most important item we
can place our attention upon to reconstruct our lives and bring order into
existence out of the disorder we have created.”

My own path has been a little different. Having worked in the Corporate world
for over two decades (in parallel with 14 years of Body Electronics and 8 years
of Naturopathy) I have been exposed to and been trained in a rather substantial
number of “systems for doing stuff” – manifestation models, project planning
models, Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (which is certainly one of
the best out there), Tony Robbins and other motivational speakers ad infinitum,
all with their own take on the keys to success. I have to admit they all have
something going for them and clearly they have helped numerous people in various
ways to get what they want. More recently, “The Secret” has been firing people’s
imaginations and creating a buzz in many circles.

With what I know about The List, I find myself querying the value of any system,
tool, model or method that helps us get what we want without once stopping to
ask whether or not what we want is what we most need. How are the questions of
responsibility and constructive action handled? What makes a given method
cultivate more than a self-centred, “I want what I want, so how do I get it”
attitude?

I believe one of the greatest things any of us will ever discover is the deep
fundamental unity of all people – no not just all people – a deep fundamental
unity of ourselves with everyone and everything else in the universe and indeed
beyond it. Sure, there are a hundred ways to get what we want, but is getting
exclusively what we want the ultimate purpose of our existence? I think not. In
fact, I believe that the continual focus on fulfilling our needs eventually
places us diametrically opposed to the fullness of what we can Be, Do or Have.
There is a time for fulfilling our needs and wants to be certain, but it is all
too easy to be seduced by the pursuit of outer or even inner desires at the cost
of considering our individual or collective responsibilities. We might ponder
whether there is an unseen price tag for the fulfilment of certain desires.

So, I present you with my contribution, “The List – The Art of Constructive Manifestation”. This 150 page book in a compact A5 format is primarily written
for the average person. You don’t have to be a student of Body Electronics to
appreciate the simplicity of The List, but the relationship of The List to many
of the key principles you may be aware of through Body Electronics is explored
and gradually developed over 31 chapters.

To that end, the book is written to be complete at any time after the first 12
chapters, which all deal with the most simple and fundamental aspects of The
List. After that I go into a progressively deeper expansion of the inner
workings of The List, including programming and emotionality, our circles of
influence and concern, creative visualisation, energy leaks, karma and karmic
completion, encompassing duality and desireless desire, and the five virtues,
topics a Body Electronics student may appreciate more.

I also have a 1-2 hour presentation with slides that I am available to present
to interested groups that wish to learn about the basics of The List in person.
So if you know anyone who may be interested…

I leave the final words to Dr Ray:

“To search for things beyond our grasp is fantasy
When that which lies within our reach we see
Has not yet been completed, yet holds the key
To that which through Right Action ours will be.
The simplest things in life will make us free”

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